door re-grows the Swamp Thing's missing arm, allowing the creature to free itself, Alice, and Bruno. Upstairs, Arcane transforms into a hairy, boar like beast, and descends to the dungeons. There, he discovers that his captives have escaped through an underwater tunnel leading back to the swamp. Sometime later, Alice and the Swamp Thing emerge from the water, followed closely by Arcane, who stabs Alice with a sword. The Swamp Thing revives Alice then kills Arcane. The creature turns to leave, but Alice pleads for him to stay so that she can help him rebuild his work. He refuses, but promises to return to her soon. Moments later, Jude emerges from the trees and embraces her as they watch the Swamp Thing lumber away through the marsh. Cast Ray Wise as Alec Holland Adrienne Barbeau as Alice Cable (a female version of Matt Cable in place of the Swamp Thing's comic book love interest Abby Arcane, who appears in the sequel) Louis Jourdan as Anton Arcane Dick Durock as the Swamp Thing David Hess as Ferret Nicholas Worth as Bruno Don Knight as Harry Ritter Al Ruban as Charlie Nannette Brown as Dr. Linda Holland Reggie Batts as Jude Karen Price as Karen Production Filming Filming occurred primarily on location in Cypress Gardens, Monks Corner, South Carolina. Wes Craven was very proud in delivering the film on time and on budget at $2.5 million. Writing In writing the film, Wes Craven referenced Werner Herzog's 1974 film The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser which was originally called Every Man for Himself and God Against All. Another mercenary says the line to the character named Bruno. In Enigma, the lead character was played by Bruno Schleinstein (credited as Bruno S.). Release Home media Swamp Thing was released on VHS, Laserdisc, DVD and Blu-ray. In August 2000, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the film on DVD in the United States. Though the DVD was labeled as being the PG-rated, domestic cut of the film, MGM had inadvertently used the 93-minute international cut of the film which contained more nudity and sexual content than the US theatrical cut. This DVD edition also erroneously lists the release date as 1981, instead of 1982. In May 2002, a Dallas woman rented the disc from a Blockbuster Video store for her children and reported this discrepancy. MGM recalled the disc and reissued it in August 2005, with the US theatrical cut